Viability of my Setup

[Drake]

I want to run 2 Affliction Warlocks, 1 Balance Druid, 1 Shadow Priest, and play a Resto Shaman as the main. Opinions?

[Chamassa]

Originally Posted by Drake

I want to run 2 Affliction Warlocks, 1 Balance Druid, 1 Shadow Priest, and play a Resto Shaman as the main. Opinions?

Sounds like a good setup. The balance druid will be able to queue as a tank, so you can actually do instancing using LFG.

The only issues i can see wiht this setup, at very high level, is that all 4 of your dps are very high priority system dps, with a lot of procs etc. Your dps efficiency running 4 of them might not be as good as you might like.
But its definitly going to be more then good enough to get through any dungeon up to say... 81/82 and in pvp dotting will get a LOT of people killed

[Drake]

That was my plan. I was going for heavy DoTs. I even considered running 2 Balance Druids and not use a Priest, but I like the idea of having a Priest. I just figured this would be a really easy "run&dot" set up for bgs.

[Chamassa]

Originally Posted by Drake

That was my plan. I was going for heavy DoTs. I even considered running 2 Balance Druids and not use a Priest, but I like the idea of having a Priest. I just figured this would be a really easy "run&dot" set up for bgs.

That it will be definitly.
Personally id go with a SP instead of a 2nd balance druid aswell, since the priest will add buffs and also replenishment, which means you can keep this up a lot longer :P

[Tim]

I think this would actually work. With the sheer number of DOTs, you could que the druid as a tank, and then have the Warlock smurf pet do the tanking!

I'd actually love to see how this works. I even think the warlock pet could probably tank heroics with those heals.

[Drake]

Originally Posted by Tim

I think this would actually work. With the sheer number of DOTs, you could que the druid as a tank, and then have the Warlock smurf pet do the tanking!

I'd actually love to see how this works. I even think the warlock pet could probably tank heroics with those heals.

I'm very curious my self. I'm going to buy a 2nd HDD in a couple days because my raptor drive is crammed and my 500gb is full... When I do that I think i'll open the accounts and get it going. Only problem is, my pwnboxer wont reregister to my new pc. If you remember a few months back, I posted saying that pwnboxer wouldn't work. Well I finally got a new PC and I have high hopes lol. I'll probably just buy it again, but if I could get it working it would help. I've got my receipt and everything in email, but never got a registration key... This was about 6 months ago.

[Ualaa]

You should be able to do most/all of the normals.

I'd be quite surprised if you can do heroics, at the correct level for them, with a Voidwalker/Felguard tank.
Not saying don't try...

And you will have the option to go with a Feral (Guardian, once MoP hits) tank, which along with the Paladin are the two tanks that you can box and be highly efficient with (ie, easy to macro their tank sequence).
Either the Priest or Shaman, in their healer spec, could heal for you in instances; it just depends on whether you want Priest/Elemental Shaman or Shadow Priest/Resto Shaman for the casters in your party.

[Drake]

Originally Posted by Ualaa

You should be able to do most/all of the normals.

I'd be quite surprised if you can do heroics, at the correct level for them, with a Voidwalker/Felguard tank.
Not saying don't try...

And you will have the option to go with a Feral (Guardian, once MoP hits) tank, which along with the Paladin are the two tanks that you can box and be highly efficient with (ie, easy to macro their tank sequence).
Either the Priest or Shaman, in their healer spec, could heal for you in instances; it just depends on whether you want Priest/Elemental Shaman or Shadow Priest/Resto Shaman for the casters in your party.

Thanks! I'm not really interested in heroics to be honest. It would be a pvp set up mostly.

[Ualaa]

In general, the more classes that are the same, the easier it is to run.

That said, you can macro to a very large degree.
Even if the DPS is not optimal, it is often close enough...
The two-step macros, posted by Mercurio (google: Mercurio +Two-Step) are an excellent place to start; you can use these even with the default UI, but it is easiest with a software that supports the equivalent of "steps" where a different key is outputted on subsequent presses of the same hotkey.

For the most part, your five vs a trickle of opponents, will result in easy wins for your team.
The tricky part is when there are equal or more players on the opposing side.

Your proposed team will have a lot of mobility and quite a bit of... slowly draining away their health.
You won't have to fight all the time, being able to maintain mobility and run about.
But you'll likely either want some burst, to kill opponents fast... or increased staying power, to survive while the multitude of dots work the enemy down.

Balance has an issue with macroing their castsequence.
If you take the talent that morphs your Moonfire into Sunfire, then your castsequence breaks.
So you have to manually play the toon.
And if you don't take it, then your eclipse mechanic is not optimal.
A boomkin adds the +Spell Damage to the team, but any Warlock can do the same with Curse of the Elements...
I'd strongly consider running the boomkin as Resto.
You still have Moonfire/Insect Swarm, and are based off of spell power...

There's nothing wrong with a Resto Shaman as your heals.
However, Elemental has a lot more DPS and in particular is excellent at boosting other casters (the same as Enhance is excellent at boosting other melee).
Elemental has very strong AoE, with Chain Lightning and Earthquake, plus Thunderstorm is good control against melee (as is Typhoon, with the Boomkin).

If you want to rely on the power of dots to kill things...
Consider running both the Druid and the Shaman as heal spec.
I'd probably dual-spec them both anyway (and the Priest), then you can mix and match to see what works best for you.

I'd stick with the 40-man BG's, AV in particular for the gearing up.
The only BG that is better than AV, for experience (while leveling) or honor (at maximum level) is IoC during its bonus honor weekend.
As a boxer in the 10-15 man battlegrounds, while undergeared and gearing up... most boxers have an abysmal record in the smaller BG's.
You can do decently in the 15-man's, once you've geared your team partially... but you're still 1/3rd of the BG in a single place, which is a whole lot less flexibility than the other side.

It's nice that (late 4.2 or early 4.3) we need only half as much time spent in BG's, for a full set of the honor gear.
I've recently played 5x Druids (as Resto), for a full set of the Honor gear.
And am in the process of gearing the 1x Paladin & 4x DK's, also in Honor gear.
Initially (for the Druids) without any pvp gearing, it was painful... where a solo toon could take on and beat the entire team consistently; eventually you reach a point where it becomes worthwhile.
The DK's had most of the 4.1 Honor/Conquest gearing (mix of the two), so was not that far off of maximum gearing for this grind... and could immediately compete at better than what the Druids could do half geared -- but the DK's were killing opponents quickly, with a high burst DPS spec... while the Druids were essentially applying 10 weak dots and surviving via heals.

[Tim]

BGs are insanely fun with Felguards. I love the concept of sending them in and then AFKing all the way to the bank.